79. Advertisements influence people’s food preferences and habits. Recognizing that children are especially exposed to aggressive marketing and promotion strategies by food and beverage companies, some States prohibit media advertising to children for certain “restricted” food and drink products. In Chile, for example, where children form more than 20 per cent of the audience, mandatory regulations restrict advertising to children under 14, while Taiwan Province of China bans the advertising of restricted foods on channels dedicated to children, levying fines for violations of its regulations. Brazil imposes strict regulations, prohibiting any “abusive publicity” and strategies that appeal directly to Children and/or adolescents. In practice, however, there seem to be many difficulties in implementing such restrictions.
Year | 2016 |
Topic | Food policy |
Document Type | Special Reports |
Country | N/A |
Policy Area | Food marketing regulations |
Human Rights | Right to health Right to information Right to adequate food and nutrition |
Groups Affected | Children and adolescents |
Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Interim Report on the right to food, A/71/282, (2016). Par. 79. Available at: https://undocs.org/A/71/282